SHIFT ON YOUTH LANGUAGE IN FACEBOOK.
SHIFT ON LANGUAGE IN FACEBOOK
A THESIS
Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirement for
the Degree of Sarjana Sastra
By
JULI ETHA R. MANALU
Registration Number: 08222810006
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
FACULTY OF LANGUAGES AND ARTS
STATE UNIVERSITY OF MEDAN
2012
ABSTRACT
Manalu, Juli Etha R. Reg. No. 082222810006. Shift on Youth Language in
Facebook. A Thesis, English Department, Faculty of Languages and Arts,
State University of Medan. 2012
This Study Deals with the Shift of youth language in facebook. The Objective of
the study are to find out the types or character of youth language in facebook
status, to find out the dominant type of youth language in Facebook status, and to
describe the implication of the most dominant type of youth language in facebook
status. This study was conducted by using descriptive qualitative method. The
data was collected from the facebook status in two separate weeks. The data was
analyzed by the type of the newest youth language ( Bahasa alay). The findings
found that there are four types of the writing of bahasa alay that are usually used
in the status and they are additional letter 15 status (32, 61%), put capital letters
among the letters in a word 4 status (8, 69%), Alay terms 19 status (41, 36%),
replace letter with number 3 status (6, 52%). Sometimes the facebook user
combine the style and the percentation of the status with the style combination is
10, 88% ( 5 status). The use of alay term is the most dominant in the whole status.
It is happened because each time the new language appear there will be new terms
occur, and usually people choose to use the new terms to disguise the real
meaning or to express their idea by their own way.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
ABSTRACT …………………………………………………........................... i
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS …………………………………………................ ii
TABLE OF CONTENT ……………………………………...……………...... iii
LIST OF APPENDICES .................................................................................. iv
CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION .................................................................... 1
A. The background of the Study ............................................................... 1
B. The problem of the Study .................................................................... 7
C. The Scope of the Study .......................................................................... 7
D. The Objective of the Study .................................................................. 8
E. The Significance of the Study ............................................................. 8
CHAPTER II: REVIEW OF LITERATURE ............................................... 9
A. Sociolinguistics .................................................................................... 9
1. Social dimensions ......................................................................... 9
2. Gender and age ............................................................................. 10
3. Ethicity .......................................................................................... 13
B. Language Shift ..................................................................................... 13
1. Demographic factor ...................................................................... 14
2. Surrounding situations .................................................................. 14
3. Social and economic
C. Facebook ............................................................................................. 15
D. Youth Language .................................................................................. 17
CHAPTER III: RESEARCH METHOD ......................................................
A. Research Design ..................................................................................
B. Source of Data .....................................................................................
C. Technique for Collecting Data ............................................................
D. Technique for Analyzing Data ............................................................
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30
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CHAPTER IV: DATA AND DATA ANALISIS ...........................................
A. Data ......................................................................................................
B. Data Analysis .......................................................................................
C. Findings ...............................................................................................
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37
CHAPTER V : CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION ................................ 39
A. Conclusion ........................................................................................... 39
B. Suggestion ............................................................................................ 40
REFERENCES ................................................................................................. 41
APPENDICES .................................................................................................. 43
iii
LIST OF APPENDICES
Appendix
Page
Appendix 1 ................................................................................ 43
Appendix 2 ................................................................................ 63
Appendix 3 ................................................................................ 100
iv
LIST OF APPENDICES
Appendix
Page
Appendix 1 ................................................................................ 43
Appendix 2 ................................................................................ 63
Appendix 3 ................................................................................ 100
iv
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
A.
Background
Language plays an important role in human life, even it is a basic need.
They use it to deliver their thoughts, ideas, will, etc. Language is all pervasive in
our lives, and its function is that of communication. Basically, this is carried out
by two related but separate activities, speaking and listening. ( Kess, 1992:1).
Because of the importance of language, there are so many branches of science that
talk about it such as sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, and the history of
language.
Psycholinguistic concern about: how people understand spoken and
written language, how people produce language, and how language and speech
acquired are. (Clark and Clark, 1977). In this thesis the writer will talk about
language from the sociolinguistics aspect, it is about language shift.
Language is changing day after day because it is dynamic. Social changes
produce changes in language and it is happened slowly by the process of human
interaction. Each community of speaker has its own history that has helped
shaped both lexicon and grammar over time. (Goldin, 2003:21).
According to the Sumpah Pemuda, language is the parameter of ideology,
behavior, and personality for the people of Indonesia. So the change of language
may bring change to the way of life of Indonesian people.
1
The development of language in the world, especially in Indonesia has
been happen from time to time. Nowadays, there are many languages are
developing in Indonesia. The ethnic language, and also Bahasa Indonesia itself
has been changed in several ways of use. Some people mix it with their ethnic
language, some of them mix it with another language and even the Bahasa
Indonesia itself, has its own formal changes that are legalized by the government.
Besides these third changes, the Indonesian youth has used Bahasa Indonesia with
their own way. They use it to communicate in their daily live.
Example :
1. In 1980’s there is prokem language (Sumarsono and Pratana).
“segokin aja?” (Is that all?).
2. Nowadays there is bahasa alay
“Aq Chayank kamoe” (I love you)
Sumuarsono and Partana ( 2004:105) say that the will to make an
exclusive group caused the youth create their own “secret” language, which is
only used in their group. Even finally this language will be recognized by the
people around them, they still keep it as their “secret” language.
There are many new words or vocabularies that are appeared during the
development oflanguage. Some of these words bring positive meaning in our life.
For the example, the word komputer which is adopted from English ‘Computer’
has brought a positive meaning. This word brings an image about something that
gives a lot of benefit in people life. This word was appeared when the computer
itself appeared
2
Beside the words that bring positive meaning in people’s life which come
along with the appearance of the new technology, there are also some words
which occured because of the creativity of the user; Usually this language is used
by the youth. (Sumarsono and Pratana, 2004). This new style bring new word
variation in language so that the language will be more colorful and not bored, but
it is worried that the continuity of using this kind of language will bring shift in
the use of formal language that has been legalized by the government.
In this thesis the witer will analyse Bahasa alay as the newest youth
language that is appear nowadays. According to Kuntjara (2010) besides showing
the youth creativity, the use of Bahasa Alay also influence the daily language of
the youth. They tend to use Bahasa Alay in formal case just like what they do in
social network. Kuntjara gives some example: ‘tempat’ (place) become ‘t4’;
‘kamu’ become ‘U’, etc. (http://www.topix.com/forum/world/indonesia).
It is worried that the use of Bahasa Alay will damage the essence of
Berbahasa satu, Bahasa Indonesia” (One national language, Indonesia), which
has stated in Sumpah Pemuda. Some people hate Bahasa alay but the other really
enjoy to use it. This is why the writer want to analyse this language, because it is
one of the language phenomenon that happen among the youth.
There are a lot of meanings for youth. Tga (2012) in her poetry said that
youth is not a time of life, but it is a state of mind (http://tga.hubpages.com/hub).
So, it is not a matter when you are thirty, as long as you have a big idea to be
young, you may be called as youth. Youth is the quality or state of being young,
youthfulness. (http://www.brainyquote.com/words/yo/youth241247.html).
3
So the youth language (bahasa alay) itself is a kind of language that
comes from teenager or adolescence from the low class at the beginning. In
Psychology Today (2001-2012), states that adolescence is about 13 to 19 years
old, but nowadays the user of the youth language is not only the youth. Mature
people who are close to the youth world also use this language.
The development of technology also has main contribution in the
development, change, and spread of language. The fast growth of electronic tools
around the twentieth century, bring new style of communication. Radio,
television, fax machines, mobile phone, iPad, computer and so forth, bring a
drastic change in social, economic, cultural, and language styles. One of the
electronic technologies that bring a big effect in human languages is the computer
Facebook as one of social networks which is operated by using computer
and of course take a big part as tools of youth language spread is an interesting
media to be analyze. Almost all youth of the world, there may be thousands or
millions people, and also Indonesian youth are included in facebook daily user.
They use this social network for many reasons; doing business such as having
online store, use it as free album to collect photos, to find old and new friend from
all over the world and the biggest reason is to have fun by making communication
with people among the world. These are why facebook can be a place where the
language can be mixed, changed, produced and lost. This condition may bring a
situation where the youth no longer use Bahasa Indonesia in proper way.
The appearance of facebook has encourage changing in the way of
communication. Facebook which is used as written communication tools that
4
should use formal language, has prompted a shift in the use of spoken language
become written spoken language.
Example :
1.
Saya akan pergi ke Medan bulan depan (Formal)
Aku mau ke medan lah bulan depan (informal)
From the examples above, the first example is formal
because it is compatible with the structure and the diction of
Bahasa Indonesi. The second one is informal because there are
words aku and mau and lah.
2.
A: Would You Come to the party tonight? (formal)
B: Yes, of course (formal)
A: Hei , dude wanna join us tonight (informal)
B: Mmm, yups. gonna be there. (informal).
From the second example, the first conversation is formal
because it use right diction while the second dialogue use ‘wanna’,
‘yups’, ‘gonna’ which are part of slang.
The other things that are usually found in informal written language is
abbreviation and emoticon usage. People use abreviatons to make it simpler to be
written or typed
Example:
Word
Abbreviation
yang
yg
5
paling
plg
harus
hrs
Emoticon
Meaning
:)
smile
:-
shock
:-?
Smoking
These abbreviations and emoticons are used commonly in informal written
langauge and understood by alomst people. But nowadays, the youth have created
a new style, not only modify the formal to informal or use abbreviation, they
make a new style to write such as mix alphabet with usual letter.
This study concerns about the sociolinguistic aspect, in this case language
shift. Language shift may
happen when a speaker chooses to use another
language, makes it as daily language and does not maintain the original language.
The study that used language shift theory is in Bahasa Gayo. (elok fitriya,
2011). In this study, Fitriya analyze the shift that is happened in Bahasa gayo.
After analyzing the data, the writer found that there are some new words which
occured of new vocabularies.
Another study that concern abouth the appearance of new language is The
use of Bahasa gaul in Transgender Community (Dulia Novelita Sitohang, 2009).
The writer found that there are some new language that is shaped by the
transgender community which is used among them. They create new style of
language , especially in vocabularies.
6
This study focuses on the use of youth language in social media
(facebook). In facebook, people are allowed to express their tought as free as they
want. They can write anything with their own style. So, here we can see how the
youth use their own language.
B.
The Problems of Study
The problems of this study is formulated as the following:
1. What types/ character of youth language (Bahasa alay) are used in
facebook status?
2. What are the dominant types/ character in teenager’s communication,
especially in facebook?
3. What is the meaning of the most dominant types/ character of language
that is used in the status?
C.
The Scope of the Study
This study is limited to one of sociolinguistics field, language shift that
happened in facebook. This study will be limited to types of youth language based
on Shinta (2011) as found in Facebook status of the user’s friends (personal
account).
D.
The Objective of the study
Based on the problem of the study, the aims of the study are
1. To describe the types of youth language which are used in the status of
the writer’s friend in facebook.
2. To observe the tendency of the youth using their own language.
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3. To explain what does the dominant mean.
E.
The significance of the study
This study is expected to be useful as a means for:
1. Preventing of losing information and words in Bahasa Indonesia
2. Adding more knowledge about youth language in Indonesia in order to
decrease misunderstanding when words of bahasa gaul are used in social
media.
3. To be a reference and a comparison for further study in the same topic.
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CHAPTER V
CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS
A.
Conclusions
This Study deals with bahasa alay as the newest version of youth language.
There are 136 status from two separated times as data source which 45 of them
are using bahasa alay. The analysis of the study shows that:
1. From the 5 types suggested by Shinta, there were only four types in
this study. They are they are put additional letter (15 status), put capital
letter among the letters in the word (4 status), using alay term directly
(19 status), replace letter with number( 3 status) or in some status they
are combined(5 status).
2. Using alay term is the more dominantly used. There are 19 statuses
(41.36%).
3. When the users use alay terms, it shows they express their feelings by
use new words which are commonly understood by the youth with the
same interest about this language, or the other facebook user that is
close to the youth world and they hope to get response in the same
way.
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B.
Suggestions
Having seen the results of this study, the writer would like to offer some
suggestion to be considered by those who are interested in studying about youth
language and in making further research about it. They are as follows:
1. It is suggested that students of English Department should learn more
about the shift of language, especially that is happened in youth
language
2. It is suggested that other researcher should make further research on
more types of youth language which will be appear later.
3. It is suggested that the facebook user should understand the youth
language that is spread in facebook, so they can understand the
statements that use bahasa alay.
4. It is suggested that the user of bahasa alay keep using the right and
formal sentence also, of course in the formal situation, especially.
Even bahasa alay is not accepted by some in society, while others prefer to use it,
particulary youth. In this case it is suggested to the parents of the youth to, at least
know this language so that they can understand and know their children’s
communication.
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Brad & Klips. 2011. Jejemon : Part of Series on Internet Slang. Retrived from
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/subcultures/jejemon . Accesed on
February 23rd 2012.
Clark, H & Eve. V.C. 1977. Psychology and Language: An Introdution to
Psycholinguistics. New York: Harcourt.
Gentner, dedre & Susan Goldin-Meadow. 2003, Language in Mind: Advances in
The Study of Language and Thought, London : The MIT Press
Holmes, J. 2001, An Introduction to Sociolinguistics, England: Longman.
Kess, J. F. 1992, Psychology, Linguistics, and the Study of Natural
Language, Victoria :Victoria B. C.
Kuntjara, E. 2010, Bahasa ‘Alay’ Cemari Bahasa Indonesia. Retrived from
http://www.topix.com/forum/world/indonesia. acccesed on December 7th
2011.
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Nababan, P. W. J. 1993, Sosiolinguistik : Suatu Pengantar, Jakarta: PT. Gramedia
Pustaka Utama.
Saputra, D.2011, Bahasa “alay” Ditemukan Sejak Puluhan Tahun Lalu. Retrived
from http://www.antaranews.com. Accesed on February 1st 2012.
Shinta, A. 2011. Handbook 4L4Y. Yogyakarta:Araska
Sumarsono & Paina Partana. 2004, Sosiolinguistik, Yogyakarta: SABDA
Tga. 2012. The meaning of youth. Retrived from http://tga.hubpages.com/hub.
accesed on February 16th 2012.
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February 16th 2012.
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Definition of Youth. Retrieved from
(http://www.brainyquote.com/words/yo/youth241247.html#ixzz1mVBnllfv).
Accesed on February 16th 2012
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http://www.facebook.com/legal/terms?ref=pf . accessed on February 16th
2012.
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A THESIS
Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirement for
the Degree of Sarjana Sastra
By
JULI ETHA R. MANALU
Registration Number: 08222810006
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
FACULTY OF LANGUAGES AND ARTS
STATE UNIVERSITY OF MEDAN
2012
ABSTRACT
Manalu, Juli Etha R. Reg. No. 082222810006. Shift on Youth Language in
Facebook. A Thesis, English Department, Faculty of Languages and Arts,
State University of Medan. 2012
This Study Deals with the Shift of youth language in facebook. The Objective of
the study are to find out the types or character of youth language in facebook
status, to find out the dominant type of youth language in Facebook status, and to
describe the implication of the most dominant type of youth language in facebook
status. This study was conducted by using descriptive qualitative method. The
data was collected from the facebook status in two separate weeks. The data was
analyzed by the type of the newest youth language ( Bahasa alay). The findings
found that there are four types of the writing of bahasa alay that are usually used
in the status and they are additional letter 15 status (32, 61%), put capital letters
among the letters in a word 4 status (8, 69%), Alay terms 19 status (41, 36%),
replace letter with number 3 status (6, 52%). Sometimes the facebook user
combine the style and the percentation of the status with the style combination is
10, 88% ( 5 status). The use of alay term is the most dominant in the whole status.
It is happened because each time the new language appear there will be new terms
occur, and usually people choose to use the new terms to disguise the real
meaning or to express their idea by their own way.
i
TABLE OF CONTENTS
ABSTRACT …………………………………………………........................... i
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS …………………………………………................ ii
TABLE OF CONTENT ……………………………………...……………...... iii
LIST OF APPENDICES .................................................................................. iv
CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION .................................................................... 1
A. The background of the Study ............................................................... 1
B. The problem of the Study .................................................................... 7
C. The Scope of the Study .......................................................................... 7
D. The Objective of the Study .................................................................. 8
E. The Significance of the Study ............................................................. 8
CHAPTER II: REVIEW OF LITERATURE ............................................... 9
A. Sociolinguistics .................................................................................... 9
1. Social dimensions ......................................................................... 9
2. Gender and age ............................................................................. 10
3. Ethicity .......................................................................................... 13
B. Language Shift ..................................................................................... 13
1. Demographic factor ...................................................................... 14
2. Surrounding situations .................................................................. 14
3. Social and economic
C. Facebook ............................................................................................. 15
D. Youth Language .................................................................................. 17
CHAPTER III: RESEARCH METHOD ......................................................
A. Research Design ..................................................................................
B. Source of Data .....................................................................................
C. Technique for Collecting Data ............................................................
D. Technique for Analyzing Data ............................................................
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29
29
30
30
CHAPTER IV: DATA AND DATA ANALISIS ...........................................
A. Data ......................................................................................................
B. Data Analysis .......................................................................................
C. Findings ...............................................................................................
31
31
31
37
CHAPTER V : CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION ................................ 39
A. Conclusion ........................................................................................... 39
B. Suggestion ............................................................................................ 40
REFERENCES ................................................................................................. 41
APPENDICES .................................................................................................. 43
iii
LIST OF APPENDICES
Appendix
Page
Appendix 1 ................................................................................ 43
Appendix 2 ................................................................................ 63
Appendix 3 ................................................................................ 100
iv
LIST OF APPENDICES
Appendix
Page
Appendix 1 ................................................................................ 43
Appendix 2 ................................................................................ 63
Appendix 3 ................................................................................ 100
iv
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
A.
Background
Language plays an important role in human life, even it is a basic need.
They use it to deliver their thoughts, ideas, will, etc. Language is all pervasive in
our lives, and its function is that of communication. Basically, this is carried out
by two related but separate activities, speaking and listening. ( Kess, 1992:1).
Because of the importance of language, there are so many branches of science that
talk about it such as sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, and the history of
language.
Psycholinguistic concern about: how people understand spoken and
written language, how people produce language, and how language and speech
acquired are. (Clark and Clark, 1977). In this thesis the writer will talk about
language from the sociolinguistics aspect, it is about language shift.
Language is changing day after day because it is dynamic. Social changes
produce changes in language and it is happened slowly by the process of human
interaction. Each community of speaker has its own history that has helped
shaped both lexicon and grammar over time. (Goldin, 2003:21).
According to the Sumpah Pemuda, language is the parameter of ideology,
behavior, and personality for the people of Indonesia. So the change of language
may bring change to the way of life of Indonesian people.
1
The development of language in the world, especially in Indonesia has
been happen from time to time. Nowadays, there are many languages are
developing in Indonesia. The ethnic language, and also Bahasa Indonesia itself
has been changed in several ways of use. Some people mix it with their ethnic
language, some of them mix it with another language and even the Bahasa
Indonesia itself, has its own formal changes that are legalized by the government.
Besides these third changes, the Indonesian youth has used Bahasa Indonesia with
their own way. They use it to communicate in their daily live.
Example :
1. In 1980’s there is prokem language (Sumarsono and Pratana).
“segokin aja?” (Is that all?).
2. Nowadays there is bahasa alay
“Aq Chayank kamoe” (I love you)
Sumuarsono and Partana ( 2004:105) say that the will to make an
exclusive group caused the youth create their own “secret” language, which is
only used in their group. Even finally this language will be recognized by the
people around them, they still keep it as their “secret” language.
There are many new words or vocabularies that are appeared during the
development oflanguage. Some of these words bring positive meaning in our life.
For the example, the word komputer which is adopted from English ‘Computer’
has brought a positive meaning. This word brings an image about something that
gives a lot of benefit in people life. This word was appeared when the computer
itself appeared
2
Beside the words that bring positive meaning in people’s life which come
along with the appearance of the new technology, there are also some words
which occured because of the creativity of the user; Usually this language is used
by the youth. (Sumarsono and Pratana, 2004). This new style bring new word
variation in language so that the language will be more colorful and not bored, but
it is worried that the continuity of using this kind of language will bring shift in
the use of formal language that has been legalized by the government.
In this thesis the witer will analyse Bahasa alay as the newest youth
language that is appear nowadays. According to Kuntjara (2010) besides showing
the youth creativity, the use of Bahasa Alay also influence the daily language of
the youth. They tend to use Bahasa Alay in formal case just like what they do in
social network. Kuntjara gives some example: ‘tempat’ (place) become ‘t4’;
‘kamu’ become ‘U’, etc. (http://www.topix.com/forum/world/indonesia).
It is worried that the use of Bahasa Alay will damage the essence of
Berbahasa satu, Bahasa Indonesia” (One national language, Indonesia), which
has stated in Sumpah Pemuda. Some people hate Bahasa alay but the other really
enjoy to use it. This is why the writer want to analyse this language, because it is
one of the language phenomenon that happen among the youth.
There are a lot of meanings for youth. Tga (2012) in her poetry said that
youth is not a time of life, but it is a state of mind (http://tga.hubpages.com/hub).
So, it is not a matter when you are thirty, as long as you have a big idea to be
young, you may be called as youth. Youth is the quality or state of being young,
youthfulness. (http://www.brainyquote.com/words/yo/youth241247.html).
3
So the youth language (bahasa alay) itself is a kind of language that
comes from teenager or adolescence from the low class at the beginning. In
Psychology Today (2001-2012), states that adolescence is about 13 to 19 years
old, but nowadays the user of the youth language is not only the youth. Mature
people who are close to the youth world also use this language.
The development of technology also has main contribution in the
development, change, and spread of language. The fast growth of electronic tools
around the twentieth century, bring new style of communication. Radio,
television, fax machines, mobile phone, iPad, computer and so forth, bring a
drastic change in social, economic, cultural, and language styles. One of the
electronic technologies that bring a big effect in human languages is the computer
Facebook as one of social networks which is operated by using computer
and of course take a big part as tools of youth language spread is an interesting
media to be analyze. Almost all youth of the world, there may be thousands or
millions people, and also Indonesian youth are included in facebook daily user.
They use this social network for many reasons; doing business such as having
online store, use it as free album to collect photos, to find old and new friend from
all over the world and the biggest reason is to have fun by making communication
with people among the world. These are why facebook can be a place where the
language can be mixed, changed, produced and lost. This condition may bring a
situation where the youth no longer use Bahasa Indonesia in proper way.
The appearance of facebook has encourage changing in the way of
communication. Facebook which is used as written communication tools that
4
should use formal language, has prompted a shift in the use of spoken language
become written spoken language.
Example :
1.
Saya akan pergi ke Medan bulan depan (Formal)
Aku mau ke medan lah bulan depan (informal)
From the examples above, the first example is formal
because it is compatible with the structure and the diction of
Bahasa Indonesi. The second one is informal because there are
words aku and mau and lah.
2.
A: Would You Come to the party tonight? (formal)
B: Yes, of course (formal)
A: Hei , dude wanna join us tonight (informal)
B: Mmm, yups. gonna be there. (informal).
From the second example, the first conversation is formal
because it use right diction while the second dialogue use ‘wanna’,
‘yups’, ‘gonna’ which are part of slang.
The other things that are usually found in informal written language is
abbreviation and emoticon usage. People use abreviatons to make it simpler to be
written or typed
Example:
Word
Abbreviation
yang
yg
5
paling
plg
harus
hrs
Emoticon
Meaning
:)
smile
:-
shock
:-?
Smoking
These abbreviations and emoticons are used commonly in informal written
langauge and understood by alomst people. But nowadays, the youth have created
a new style, not only modify the formal to informal or use abbreviation, they
make a new style to write such as mix alphabet with usual letter.
This study concerns about the sociolinguistic aspect, in this case language
shift. Language shift may
happen when a speaker chooses to use another
language, makes it as daily language and does not maintain the original language.
The study that used language shift theory is in Bahasa Gayo. (elok fitriya,
2011). In this study, Fitriya analyze the shift that is happened in Bahasa gayo.
After analyzing the data, the writer found that there are some new words which
occured of new vocabularies.
Another study that concern abouth the appearance of new language is The
use of Bahasa gaul in Transgender Community (Dulia Novelita Sitohang, 2009).
The writer found that there are some new language that is shaped by the
transgender community which is used among them. They create new style of
language , especially in vocabularies.
6
This study focuses on the use of youth language in social media
(facebook). In facebook, people are allowed to express their tought as free as they
want. They can write anything with their own style. So, here we can see how the
youth use their own language.
B.
The Problems of Study
The problems of this study is formulated as the following:
1. What types/ character of youth language (Bahasa alay) are used in
facebook status?
2. What are the dominant types/ character in teenager’s communication,
especially in facebook?
3. What is the meaning of the most dominant types/ character of language
that is used in the status?
C.
The Scope of the Study
This study is limited to one of sociolinguistics field, language shift that
happened in facebook. This study will be limited to types of youth language based
on Shinta (2011) as found in Facebook status of the user’s friends (personal
account).
D.
The Objective of the study
Based on the problem of the study, the aims of the study are
1. To describe the types of youth language which are used in the status of
the writer’s friend in facebook.
2. To observe the tendency of the youth using their own language.
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3. To explain what does the dominant mean.
E.
The significance of the study
This study is expected to be useful as a means for:
1. Preventing of losing information and words in Bahasa Indonesia
2. Adding more knowledge about youth language in Indonesia in order to
decrease misunderstanding when words of bahasa gaul are used in social
media.
3. To be a reference and a comparison for further study in the same topic.
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CHAPTER V
CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS
A.
Conclusions
This Study deals with bahasa alay as the newest version of youth language.
There are 136 status from two separated times as data source which 45 of them
are using bahasa alay. The analysis of the study shows that:
1. From the 5 types suggested by Shinta, there were only four types in
this study. They are they are put additional letter (15 status), put capital
letter among the letters in the word (4 status), using alay term directly
(19 status), replace letter with number( 3 status) or in some status they
are combined(5 status).
2. Using alay term is the more dominantly used. There are 19 statuses
(41.36%).
3. When the users use alay terms, it shows they express their feelings by
use new words which are commonly understood by the youth with the
same interest about this language, or the other facebook user that is
close to the youth world and they hope to get response in the same
way.
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B.
Suggestions
Having seen the results of this study, the writer would like to offer some
suggestion to be considered by those who are interested in studying about youth
language and in making further research about it. They are as follows:
1. It is suggested that students of English Department should learn more
about the shift of language, especially that is happened in youth
language
2. It is suggested that other researcher should make further research on
more types of youth language which will be appear later.
3. It is suggested that the facebook user should understand the youth
language that is spread in facebook, so they can understand the
statements that use bahasa alay.
4. It is suggested that the user of bahasa alay keep using the right and
formal sentence also, of course in the formal situation, especially.
Even bahasa alay is not accepted by some in society, while others prefer to use it,
particulary youth. In this case it is suggested to the parents of the youth to, at least
know this language so that they can understand and know their children’s
communication.
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